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Plain text of Fourth Prapathaka · Second Khanda

4.2.1 Then Janasruti, the great-grandson of Janasruta, took six hundred cows and a gold necklace and a chariot drawn by a she-mule, and went back to him.

4.2.2 He said to him: "Raikva, here are six hundred cows, and here is a gold necklace, and here is a chariot drawn by a she-mule. Now, Sir, teach me about the Lord whom you serve."

4.2.3 And to him then the other replied: "Oh! Necklace and carriage along with the cows be yours, O man of wealth!"

And then again Janasruti, the great-grandson of Janasruta, taking a thousand cows and a gold necklace and a chariot drawn by a she-mule, and his daughter too, went unto him.

4.2.4 Then he spoke unto him: "Raikva, here are a thousand cows, and here is a gold necklace, and here is a chariot drawn by a she-mule, and here is a wife, and here is the village in which you dwell. Pray, Sir, do you teach me."

4.2.5 Then, lifting up her face toward himself, he said: "He has brought these cows along! O man of wealth, merely for the sake of this face you would cause me to speak."

So those villages are called the Raikvaparna villages, among the people of the Mahavrishas, where at his offer he lived.

Then he said to him: